Archive for November, 2009

How can you tell if a phone number is a Google Voice number? Will a reverse number lookup indicate a particular carrier if a number is Google Voice? Ive done a reverse lookup on a known Google Voice number and the carrier said Level 3. Can anyone confirm?

I have Google Voice. Try this… call the number. If they have not setup their voicemail fully, it will say that "the google voice subscriber you have called is not available." If they have setup their voicemail, you can press *. If it is a female voice that says "To access your account, please enter your four digit pin" it is likely a google Voice account.

Many people have their profile picture on google, but mine isn’t there, how can I make it appear on google?

on facebook you can set your profile pic to be a question mark for safety reasons! go to settings then to privacy settings then go to search ( it’s an option after you click on privacy settings. ) then you can take it from here! hope I helped you!

I need as much advice as possible. I really need to get my site on google quickly.

Hello Get site quickly,

Your website is new, so you may have to wait a while to get indexed in google. However, when I developed my site a little over a year ago, I was indexed in google and the other search engines within a week. I can give you an idea of what you can do:

FIRST YOU DON’T WANT A LOT OF TRAFFIC- yOU WANT QUALIFIED TRAFFIC( people who are actually interested in what you have to offer).

1. What’s the objective of your website? - is it ecommerce, do you want to provide information or is it a mixture of both?

2. Do your Keyword Research- What is the theme of your website what is it about? What words are people using to find your site? You can find this out by using paid keyword tools like wordtracker.com or keyword discovery. However, google keyword external and overture is free keyword tools.

3. Once you have the right keywords, you have to strategically place them on your website (Title Tags, header tags, meta-description). Get your Search engine optimization in place, make sure you keep your flash to a minium and create" Alt tags for images & videos.( Search engines can’t read flash, images or videos).

4. Create compelling content that engages your reader to learn more about your business. (Provide Keyword Rich Articles, Instructional Videos, Slideshows, Quizzes, Surveys). Basically, make your site sticky. The longer people stay on your site, the more they get to know like and trust you. And that means people will buy from you!

5. Create compelling copy - action words that intrigue the reader to take action, ( Book the session now, sign up for my newsletter, download my report). Tell the prospect what you want them to do. ( Remember you want "qualified traffic" to turn into conversions & sales.

6. Make sure you have a way to keep in contact with visits your site. Set up a contact form or a affordable email marketing system like aweber.com ( keep in touch, people are too busy with their everyday life. They can visit your site and forget to return.)

7. Know your strategy behind every tactic. Here are a few tactics that can help you get traffic(remember you want qualified traffic):

1. Forum Posting - Great way to get article ideas & great way to get 1 way backlinks for seo purposes.

2. Article Marketing - great way to show your expertise & get high quality backlinks .

3. Online Press Releases- great way to get backlinks & get exposure about your brand/business

4. Social Media Marketing (youtbue, twitter, facebook) great way to build relationships, engage customers, and get feedback on your company.

5. Don’t forget about offline strategies, Direct Mail ( Sales Letters& Postcards) still work wonders.

6. Directory Submission ( Aim for niche directories that are relevant to your field). However, you want to get listed in dmoz.org

7. Offer contests, giveaways, freebies, & incentives to promote people to come to your website.

8. PPC - Paid per click, you can pay for a sponsered link to be on the 1st page of Google. However, Ppc can be quite complex and costly, it’s better to hire a qualifed expert for this type of service.

However, All of these tactis are part of Search Engine Optimization. You have to do your research, and you have to see where you competiton stands. If your competion is on the 1st page of google because they have 500 pages of keyword rich content, that means that you have to create 600 pages of keyword rich content and more.

Of course it depends on your budget, your objective, your target audience and other factors. However, I hope that is a start. If you want to know more you can visit www.ninalewis.org and ask me more questions. And for on-going education , I suggest you visit www.seomoz.org and www.seobook.com to immerse yourself in learning about Seo.

I just got a Google Voice number. When someone calls my google number, my cell phone rings and displays MY cell phone number as the caller id. It does not show the callers number.

I have my Google Voice settings to display the callers number, and the voice mail recognized this person in my gmail contacts.

I love this thing but it’s not going to worgm ailI don’t know who is calling!

Thanks in advance

Randy Weber

It’s not supposed to show your cell phone caller ID. The only 2 options are to show the callers number or your Google Voice number.

Try setting up another phone on your Google Voice and see if the problem is also found using another phone. Otherwise, you’ll need to go into the help forum for Google Voice and ask a Google employee for help.

I am wanting to you google voice but I would like to know a little more about it. I want to know if someone calls my google number and I answer it on my cell phone will my cell phone company charge me for the minutes I use?

Yes your regurlar service minutes will kick into effect.

With google voice however, you can add a home or office phone to be linked to that one number.
So if you answer your cell phone you can actaully seemlessly tranfer the call to the home or office and the caller will never know. That will save your cellular minutes.

I can’t seem to search google maps using a postcode, is there an add-on I can download for my palm pre?

seems to work fine for me. Just type in the zip code in the google search box and it pulls up the associated city.

if you’re looking for more advanced zip code features, you should tryinstalling the homebrew apps:

zip code tools, install file coaster for easy homebrew app install
zip codes, install preware for easy homebrew app install

and now i get totally random texts! how do i get my number down without having to change my number???

Wow, smart move.

also, does google has servers in which we can pay to host our site? what about Google earth?

They make money with AdWords, not AdSense. They mainly make money with AdWords, in which they use in Google searches, and on YouTube. They also have a pro version of Earth.

It was founded in 1995, and currently dominates as the number one search engine, but I’m wondering since when?
If you’re not going to give a real answer, don’t waste my time.

basically as it was one of the first ones it always as been~firefox and yahoo seem to be the next 2 in size and usage
hope this helps

My phone number, name, address and everything about me is listed on search engines. How do I block it from being searched and get it blocked from being displayed for everyone to see?

Unfortunately there’s not a lot you can do, since wherever the search engines are picking up the info is presumably public info.